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Frontline situation update: December 2 (updated)
2024-12-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02.12.2024 to 00:00 03.12.2024.

Six cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

There were no reports of civilian casualties.

DAMAGED:
Three residential buildings.

Six artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.

A total of 16 units of various ammunition were fired.

21:00 Servicemen from the 203mm 2S7 Malka self-propelled artillery unit of the Center group of forces destroyed a control point for unmanned aerial vehicles and a hangar with armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction of the special military operation.

19:48 Russian troops have made progress in advancing in the Kupyansk direction - in the area of Kolesnikovka and Kruglyakovka. A mop up operation is underway near Glushkovka, said the head of the Khar'kov regional military administration, Vitaly Ganchev.

19:24 Su-34 crew struck a concentration of personnel, armored and automobile military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.

18:57 Russian troops are conducting an offensive in the Kupyansk, Borovsk directions and in the northern part of the Khar'kov region, said the head of the Russian administration of the Khar'kov region, Ganchev.

18:34 Explosions in Krivoy Rog. Before that, there were reports of missiles in that direction.

18:10 Crew of the 203mm 2S7 self-propelled gun "Malka" of the "Dnepr" group of forces destroyed artillery gun of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kakhovka direction.

17:52 A bunker with Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower inside was destroyed by a drone operator in the Khar'kov region –video.

17:25 The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in Kurakhovo itself. War correspondent Timofey Ermakov reported that Russian forces are conducting an assault operation in the Yuzhny microdistrict. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also "pressing" and destroying in the Vodokanal area.

16:56 Fire damage to Ukrainian stronghold south of Kremyanoye, Kursk region –video.

16:20 Enemy reports: "in the Kursk direction, the Russian Armed Forces carried out several local attacks in different sections of the front. Thus, in the Korenevsky district, a number of forest belts south of Kremyanoye came under the control of Russian troops, and in Sudzhansky they managed to advance near Kamyshevka and in the Nechayev area."

15:56 FPV drones calculations of the "North" force group are destroying Ukrainian Armed Forces pickups in the Khar'kov region.

Objective control means recorded direct hits on three enemy pickups.

15:01 Footage of combat work of the crews of the latest unmanned aerial vehicles of the Molniya-2 type of the North group of forces to destroy armored and automobile equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.

14:52 UAV operators don't give advance the enemy - the drone constantly hangs in the air and keeps the Ukrainian Armed Forces on edge. Thermal video cameras help the fighters, transmitting images even at night.

"We are constantly hanging in the air and holding them. They can't even break through anywhere, some movements are immediately visible, the light of the headlights is visible and that's it, we immediately start working," said the UAV operator with the call sign "Beard".

13:47 Crews of 220mm BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket systems of the Vostok group of forces stopped delivery of ammunition, supplies and food to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:15 Footage of work of the crew of the Iskander operational-tactical missile system of the Zapad group of forces to strike at military infrastructure facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ??the special military operation.

12:52 In the Boguslav direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces “wedged” themselves more than one kilometer deep and along the front between Lozovaya and Zeleny Gai, reported Directed to Ukraine.

The enemy organized two counterattacks with assault groups of 14 and 16 militants, but had no success. It is noted that the command of the 77th Separate Ammo Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the battalion of the 115th Separate Brigade of the Troops transferred to its command in two weeks, using personnel to consolidate combat formations and conduct assault operations, as a result of which the manning level dropped to 15%.

10:57 Tula paratroopers' artillery destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces units blocked in the Olgovskaya Grove area in Kursk Oblast –video.

10:34 Enemy reports: "On the Vrem'yevsk salient, the Russian Armed Forces entered the settlement of Novy Komar, located north of Velyka Novosyolka, control over which means blocking Velyka Novosyolka from the north. The capture of Novy Komar also opens the way for the Russian Armed Forces to advance further west in the direction of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions, entering the rear of the Ukrainian troops on the southern front."

10:22 Russia may begin its offensive in the Zaporizhia region after December 5, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources

The Russian Armed Forces may also carry out another operation in the near future - with the aim of attacking Kherson by crossing the Dnieper. Ukrainian media claim that the Russian Armed Forces are bringing equipment for constructing pontoon crossings to areas located on the left bank of the Dnieper and are preparing troops.

09:54 Strikes were carried out in the area of the railway station in Ternopil in western Ukraine, power lines were damaged, half of the city was left without electricity, the pro-Russian resistance reported.

09:34 Crews of T-72B3M tanks of the Guards Tank Army of the "West" group of forces at night destroyed camouflaged strongholds and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

09:07 Enemy reports: "Khar'kov region. The Russian Armed Forces have occupied part of the territory in the Berestovoye area. To the south of Kupyansk-Uzlovoye, in the section where the Russian Armed Forces broke through to the Oskol River, between Kolesnikovka and Kruglyakovka, the Russian army was able to significantly expand the "area of control" - to the village of Glushkovka."

08:58 The settlement of Pushkino in the Pokrovsky direction has been completely liberated from Ukrainian troops, Sh'pot Fronta reported.

08:11 Scouts of the BARS-32 detachment of the Russian military group Dnepr in the Zaporizhia region developed tactics for identifying Ukrainian Armed Forces bunkers for their subsequent destruction, the detachment's scout spoke about this.

UAV operators, having discovered Ukrainian infantry in forest plantations, direct their drones so that the wind does not carry the sounds of the working propellers to the enemy; their task is to quietly escort the enemy infantry to the final point - a dugout. A large network of dugouts was recently uncovered using this tactic.

08:08 The Russian Armed Forces repelled more than 140 counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the borders of the LPR in November, military expert Andrey Marochko reported, citing his own sources

"Over the past month, 143 enemy counterattacks were repelled on the LPR borders, which was 57 fewer than in October. This fact indicates the fatigue of the Ukrainian troops and the reduction of the offensive potential of the armed formations of Ukraine," the expert noted.

08:04 The Russian Armed Forces have effectively blocked the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Velyka Novoselka of the DPR, the security forces reported.

08:00 Ka-52M crew as part of a mixed tactical group destroyed personnel and a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region, supporting units of the Sever group.

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